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成语

chéng yǔ

HSK 2.0 Level 5 HSK 3.0 Level 5

Definitions

1. Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation
2. idiom
3. proverb
4. saying
5. adage

composite context

historical or literary anecdote that gives rise to a saying

loan idiom

game where the last word of one idiom 成語|成语[chéng yǔ] is the first of the next

assembled phonology

to succeed

to tell to

dialect